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The big hits are often just so much luck though. One of my student aids was a gamer with high level video horsepower. He started mining bitcoin almost at its origin and had something like a dozen. He wasn’t investing, he was just playing around. He kept them for a while then sold them on a lark. If he had kept them he’d have started out life with an investment stake big enough insure easy investing from then on. It was a completely random decision made when there was no accurate way to see the future. If he had kept them and made his stake it would have the equivalent of being struck by lightning.

Not the greatest test last night. None of the Iowa pitchers very threw hard -- Tork's hits were on pitches <90. Hit one 94 mph FB hard for an GO. But 3/5 still beats 0/5

LOL - as of the end of the game tonight his MudHen OPS is 1.083

The worst case scenario is that what he is doing works well enough at Toledo that here is insufficient drive to change. It's going to be up to the coaches in Toledo to impress on him that they don't care what kind of numbers he generates against AAA pitching, he's not going back to Det until they see the approaches they want. And that's going to be hard message to delivery with much credibility.

The WSJ's credibility when down the tubes when it became a Murdoch property. It's Fox news for the Lexus crowd.

With any luck, and Bannon being the a-hole he is, there will be no time credited for good behavior......

It's pretty easy to for a techinically oriented person to silo themselves. They stop paying serious attentions to the 'outside' world, or never had the habit in the first place, then along comes some half baked idea that has a certain logic to it, maybe there is some kind of analogous logic from something in their field and they go right off the deep end with it exactly because they never had developed solid intellectual habits around following current events.

Depends on what form ‘recovery’ takes. It’s hard to be real optimistic now but OTOH when a guy hits 30 in the majors in 2/3 of a season, he’s shown you do at least have something to work with.

the difference is that Chafin has been Chafin pretty much all along, whereas Wentz started out as Cy Young and has turned into a Pumpkin. He's given up 22 base runners in his last 9.2 IP. ERA was 0.68 on 5/8, has been 13.03 since. So his season averages obscure that he he has pretty much totally lost it recently.

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Wasted pitching change-Wentz could have done that.

It really too bad that the CBA ends up responsible for fans having to watch bad baseball. Wentz is going to get more chances to fail just because he is out of options.

Wentz isnt even missing close but some dumb base running saves him

repeat issue on the hip?

yup. But they will deny reality as long as they can because they also know full well that the minute that football and maybe Basketball are admitted to be fully professional, control of the system by the schools becomes superfluous - the new structure will need it's own professional management system - like a commissioner/league office etc and there is no reason for anyone at any of the schools to have any direct voice in that administration/management. I see the school admins being dealt out in the end - or maybe just reduced to just making appointments of members to some other management board..

yup

funny how things go. The West division is weak enough this season that you don't need to win the Central to get a playoff spot.

Election in India a mixed bag for Modi but a big loss for polllng, which missed by a mile

Yeah, we had one of the greatest veteran hitters on the bench through 2 terrible yrs by the hitters. If Cabrera didn’t rub off on anyone., how do you seriously argue Canha would?

I hope he breaks through, but strike zone judgment only gets you so far if he can’t hit the strikes.

Of course such a law should be anathema to a SCOTUS full of FEDERALIST Society members. Well, at least you might think that anyway.

I don’t know that it’s his swing mechanics as much as his swing decisions, but he may as stubborn about approach as mechanics for all we know.

The importance of bullpen management has grown in recent years. I think today a team that pays attention to assembling a bullpen that can show a lot of different looks and a manager how knows how to use that tool do make a bigger difference today than at any previous point in the history of the game.

It was Pepsi sales falling as much as Dr Pepper increasing. From what I've been reading, the entire old style soda market is declining. It's something I've gradually given up the last few years. It's an easy place to cut out empty calories and without doing too much else other than dropping the soda I did drop a few lbs.

Trump's politics have descended into the 'Oprah Giveaway' paradigm, but with the twist that the give away is to promise to break something in the government for every constituent with a gripe. "You get a broken institution, and YOU get a broken institution.....!!"